Hotlinking is a commonly accepted Internet expression for linking to another website’s images. Basically, if you build a site, another person may want to use the images which you have and rather than downloading them from your Internet site and then uploading them to their own website, they may simply put links directly to your website. In this way, every time a visitor opens their website, the images will be loaded from your account, hence stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, not to mention the copyright issues which can appear or that someone could be trying to deceive people into believing that they're actually on your website. In rare occasions, documents and other kinds of files could also be linked in the same exact way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid this sort of situations, you could enable hotlink protection for your Internet site.

Hotlinking Protection in Shared Web Hosting

It shall not take more than a couple of clicks to activate the hotlink security feature that we provide even if this is the 1st website hosting account you use, as all of our Linux shared web hosting come with a very simple and easy to work with tool that will permit you to prevent direct links to your content. The tool is part of our innovative Hepsia CP, so it provides the same exact intuitive point-and-click interface. When you log in to your account’s back office and navigate to the Hotlink Protection section, you'll only need to select the domain or subdomain that you'd like to secure from a drop-down list. If you would like to switch on this function only for a specific Internet site folder, you've got the option to do that. All Internet sites with enabled hotlink protection will appear inside this section and you can easily disable the service by selecting the checkbox beside the given Internet site and pressing the Delete button.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you start a semi-dedicated server account and you learn that someone is linking to your files without your consent, you may easily cut them off by enabling the hotlink security feature we offer you. While the regular way to do this is to set up an .htaccess file, we have a special tool that is able to do this automatically and you will only need to select the website in question and to determine whether our system should set up the necessary file within the main folder or inside a subfolder. The tool is an element of our customized Hepsia Control Panel and offers the same user-friendly interface, so you will be able to use it without any difficulties even when you have never used any web hosting service before. You are able to deactivate the hotlink protection feature for any website/folder with a click from the same section.